Box Office - 04/01/2003
"...AMANDLA! -- from the Xhosa word for power -- certainly tells a tale of fine humanism..."

Chicago Sun-Times - 02/28/2003
"...Uplifting..."

Los Angeles Times - 02/28/2003
"...AMANDLA is a music documentary and a political documentary and then some. It leaves you stirred and uplifted not only by its music but also by the determination and courage of the people who sang and danced it on the way to a freer life..."

Total Film - 01/01/2004
"[P]owerful..."

Sight and Sound - 02/01/2004
"[I]mmensely moving..."

Wall Street Journal - 07/15/2011
"As this magnificent documentary about South African music shows, protest songs amounted to weapons of war for a desperate people who needed to sing so they wouldn't weep."

Product Description:

With an uplifting mood that celebrates the victory of black South Africans who fought against Apartheid, AMANDLA shows how music and song played an essential role in the fight for freedom. The film focuses on the important spiritual sustenance that freedom music played in the long road to a free South Africa.